Edubuntu Discussion - Ubuntu open Week

[13:51] <+ClassBot> ubuntoogle asked: I think collaboration among educational groups is important. Have you thought about expanding into web-services?

[13:51] Right, so we're discussing that at the Ubuntu Developer Summit next week as well
[13:52] most of those tools are web-based, and web-based tools are often a nightmare to maintain package-wise
[13:52] we're going to have a session where we investigate creating and packaging tools that will install and manage web based collaboration suites
[13:52] rather than managing it completely via the package management system
[13:53] this should take load off package maintainers and also make it possible for users to get updates faster, although I'm not sure it's been done yet so it is a bit experimental. I'll be able to tell you more about plans on this area after next week :)
[13:54] The first package we'll be targeting is Moodle
[13:55] Debian is considering orphaning it so we'll be looking at creating the tools for that collaboration suite first.


https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Specifications/Brainstorming/Maverick